Apparatus for dyeing.



Patentad Feb. |8,4I902.

.1. Rhones. APPARATUS FOB DYEING.

(Application filed July 5, l1899.)

(No Modal.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- .JOHN RHODES, OF BRADFORD, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

SBECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,443, dated. February 18, 1902.

Application iiled July 5, 1899. Serial No. 72 2,859. (No model.) l

To all' whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN RHODES, a subl ject of the Queen of England, residing at 36 Elizabeth street, Bradford, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Securing, Dyeing, and Similar-ly Treating Hanks of'Yarn, Slubbing, and other Fibrous Material, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to. provide simple apparatus for scouring, dyeing, and similarly treating wool and other ibrous'inaterial, hanks of yarn, slubbing, and the like.

To fully describe my invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of a vat or cistern to which my improvements are applied. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same with one side of the vat in section to show the interior in full.

The vat 2 contains an inner vessel 3, the sides 4t of which are fixed a certain distance from the Wallsof thev vat, soas to leave a space 5 all around. The bottoms 1 of the sides Vof the vessel do not reach to the bottom 6 of the vat, but .are supported a little Way from the bottom upon a suitable number of feet 7.

Consequently a space is left all around. A steam-pipe 9 is fixed all around the bottom of the vat outside the vessel 3. This pipe is made with perforations 10 in the top and is supplied with steam under press ure,prefer ably, by two inlets 12 12. The inner vessel 3 has a false bottom consisting of cross-bars 13, covered with canvas 14 or like material,

and the material to be treated is placed upon this false bottom and a canvas cover 15 placed Over it. Instead of completely filling the vessel 3 a removable horizontal partition 17, sup# ported on the side bars 18, may be placed over the material on the false bottom. In

this case the partition 17 is also covered with canvas 19, and a covering 20 of canvas is placed over the material. The stippling 21 in Fig. 1 represents the material robe treated in position. The sides of the vessel 3 may be I 9, it, besides heating the liquor, drives it up.

the space 5, and the inwardly-curved rim 27 v of the sides of the vat andthe cover 28 cause it to flow over into the top of the vessel 3. Forcing .the liquor from beneath the'bottom 13 up Vin this way produces a suction or par- .tial vacuum under the material, Whichtends to draw' the liquor flowing into the top of the vessel back through the material, and the canvas insures uniform distribution'of the liquor.

To prevent the liquor passing directly 1 through the material, hinged doors 30 may be tted on the under side of the false bottom. One ofv these doors is shown in section in Fig. 1, and another is shown open and in full by the side of it. The doors are closed by chains or ropes attached to the staples 3l, extending up to the top of the vat. Closing one or more of the doors causes a portion of the'liquor to owin an inclined or lateral course through the material. Y

I claiml The combination with the Vati. and inner vessel 3 having a perforated false bottom, of

`the doors 30- substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

. Jenn` RHODES. Witnesses:

DAVID NOWELL, SAMUEL A. DEACUP.` 

